The Nik Collection currently includes seven plugins offering photographers a wide array of capabilities from film emulation, sharpening and noise reduction, to color correction, black-and-white conversion, and HDR processing. There’s also a plugin for selectively adjusting the color and tonality of an image without complicated masks or selections.

The current version of the Nik collection is now available for free on the DXO Labs website, and we’ll keep you posted on when DXO introduces a new version next year. At this point there’s no word on whether the updated version will remain a free download.